The Ejection Site

AIM-7 Sparrow Missiles are good for shooting down the enemy, but here is one shot that got the shooter. A F-14 test pilot finds out how disorienting an ejection can be when his aircraft gets damaged by a missile launch.
Thanks to Pete Purvis, and Flight Journal for use of this article.

Can you have a successful ejection without a parachute? That simple question came into my email one day and led to me putting together this story. I answered truthfully, based on the technical definition of successful, yes, although it is quite rare. The person who had asked was thrilled with that answer. He had been one of the few survivors of an ejection without a parachute...

Night again, only this time an electronic hangup in the HUD leads to a supersonic dive. Ejecting into air five times the force of a Catagory 5 hurricane pits a pilot against forces rarely experienced, and less often survived.